stock ticker -- fun project

[BIRA_PXI]

Hi All,

Wanted to know if its possible to develop a stock ticker using labview. The program will read one of the ticker streams and display the stock information on a graph. Also would like many technical indications like EMA, bollinger bands etc to be added to the graph. 

Is this possible ?

thanks, 

birapxi

[MattBradley]

Don't see why not.  Hardest part sounds like it would be reading the ticker stream.  Did you have any specific concerns?

[smercurio_fc]

Something like this one?

[BIRA_PXI]

yup, something like that..

Thanks a bunch. 

birapxi

[pbuckley]

VerneD put this little program together utilizing Data Sockets. Pretty cool....

[GregFreeman]

I was actually planning on doing this recently myself, as investing is one of my hobbies. Here is a page you will want to take a look at. You can also use this link to access a financial RSS feed.

[pbuckley]

Can you utilize the RSS feeds in LV? I.E. can you obtain a renewed RSS and perform a task, or collect the data for the stock(s), write it to an appened file, plot in real time, etc...? Maybe you could use an RSS reader (Outlook, Google Mail, Yahoo!) through Data Socket? There are a few forum strings on it, but nothing too useful. This would be a very powerful tool across a number of disciplines.

[GregFreeman]

check out these threads. You will need to parse xml, but lucky for you JKI has this functionality already I believe.

http://lavag.org/topic/10540-get-rss-feeds-through-labview/

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/RSS-feed-reader-in-Labview/m-p/1118903

[pbuckley]

Thanks! I'll have to play around with this later. I was thinking of utilizing the RSS feeds of weather warnings from NWS to do some spiffy things...